Sentence examples for flat picture from inspiring English sources

This is a flat picture — not the two-faced changeling of advertising placards.

Everything he does is about engaging with and questioning what art is about, how can you capture the real world and time and space in a flat picture.

If this is painting, it appeals as much to the tactility of surface textures and spatial presence as it does to any eye seeking out a flat picture.

His "Bridge Over Stream, Ipswich" (1893-94) depicts a rural scene using formal devices associated with Japanese prints: an oblique point of view; a simplification of the landscape into blocky areas of color; and a flat picture plane.

William Matthew Prior charged $10 for portraits in his Boston studio, although he advertised that "persons wishing for a flat picture can have a likeness without shade or shadow at one quarter price".

Its stark form, uncharged with meaning except what the viewer reads into it, and flat picture plane -- which he saw as the device that divorced his pictures from the illusory depth of perspective -- enabled him to escape the confines of "illustration" in his documentary work and progress to the "realm of ideas," he later put it.

In a design class taught by Mickey Telemaque at the Boston Arts Academy mentioned in the book, for example, students are encouraged to look through a viewfinder with one eye, so that they lose their depth perception and see the world as if it were a two-dimensional picture with flat lines, shapes and colors.

The various shapes, interacting with literally negative spaces, cohere in the eye and in the mind as balanced, flat pictures.

Piecing together neatly cutout pieces of colored felt and lengths of colored yarn, James Gobel creates large, flat pictures of beefy, bearded men in hip, faux-proletarian garb.

The traditional approach is stereoscopy, which combines two or more flat pictures taken from different angles, to create an illusion of depth in a way similar to that which the brain employs in processing the different perspectives seen by the left and right eyes.

There is something magical in the power of flat pictures to depict a diverse universe, as also in the power of mere sounds to express events.